For example, not only did I never think that President Obama is a liberal or Progressive, but neither did I expect him to be the President for Progressives or liberals. I expected him to be the President of all Americans - Democrats and Republicans - left, right and center - and that is exactly what he is trying to be.
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Obama got into office by misleading Democratic voters. He ran to the left of Hillary Clinton. It's why even his 'most ardent admirers' still argue about whether he's a liberal or a centrist or a moderate Republican
. He convinced centrists that he was a centrist. He convinced liberals he was a liberal posing as a centrist.
If you go back and watch Candidate Obama's speeches, interviews and debates in 2008, and listen with your now 'experienc
ed ears' (experienc
ed in lawyer-spe
ak, aka Bush-speak
, although Bush needed a team of speech writers to do what Obama is able to do on his own, i.e., think on his feet), I think you'll see that Obama spoke carefully and precisely to give people the sense of what they wanted to hear in order to get their vote.
The truth is that Obama's nothing but a politician
, and I mean that in the worst sense of the word. In the 'used car salesman' sense. It turns out that doing what's right for transnatio
nal corporatio
ns is what Obama is about, and trying to sell it as good for Americans is what he does afterwards
. He's the epitome of the 1950s Republican
, "What's good for GM is good for America." He did a snow job on everybody.
As far as this line, "I expected him to be the President of all Americans"
, it's straight out of the Plouffe playbook of spin.
Teddy Roosevelt was a Republican and busted the trusts and conserved the land.
We're talking about good policy, DEMOCRATIC ideology. Even Teddy Roosevelt knew when to work in the People's best interests, with Democratic legislatin
g. Obama is pure REPUBLICAN policy and legislatio
n cloaked in Democratic buzzwords. Obama's 'most ardent supporters
' have a bad habit of defending legislatio
n that they don't really understand or know anything about by saying "He's trying to be president to all of the people," as if he's splitting the baby down the middle, giving each side a little (no, that's not even what he's doing, and if you had any background
, education or experience in government and public policy you would know that), but even that would be k!lling the baby.
We're talking about policies and legislatio
n and a government that works for the People or works for the transnatio
nal Corporatio
ns. Both parties do that, and tragically you don't seem to comprehend the difference
.
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